Boot and shoe



(ModeL) R. W. GONE.

Boot and Shoe.

No. 240,890. Patented May 3 ,188I.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- RICHARD woonn, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOT AND SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 240,890, dated May 3, 1881.

Application filedMaroh 21, 1881. (Model) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RICHARD W. (JoNE, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boots and Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification.

This invention in boots and shoes has for its object improvements'in the counter and counter-lining and the method of manipulating them during lasting, whereby the correctinsertion of the metal or other flanged heelstiffeningbetween the counter-lining and counter lower end of the back or quarter of the boot or shoe is facilitated.

In the manufacture of boots the counter or lower end of the boot-leg inside has a counterlining stitched to it bya seam extended across the back, and the stiffening is inserted in the space between them. When a flanged or other stiffening is inserted into. the space between the counter-lining and counter before the boot is applied to the last, as has been commonly done, much difflculty has been experienced in securing the counter-lining to the inner sole, and during the operation of lasting the heel it has been difficult to keep the stiffening correctly in place and secure the counter evenly to the inner sole, so as to assure uniformityin the stiffened parts of the boot about the heel of the last. In accordance with my invention I cut or shape the lower edge of the counter. lining, which is sewed to the counter, so as to form a series of lips, which, when the boot is subsequently placed on the last, are laid over separately on the heel end of the inner sole, where the lips are secured evenly by tacks or pegs. Securing the lips of the counter-lining to the inner sole separates the lower end of the counter-lining from the lower end of the counter or boot-back, forming a space, into which the stiffening, flanged or simply curved and in one or two pieces, may be easily inserted and crowded to place without affecting the correct relative position of the counter andinner sole, for, being connected together, the one cannot move on the other under the strain of inserting the stiffening. This my method is especially advantageous when using a flanged metal fastening such as described in United States Patent No. 197,696, November 27,1877.

Figure 1 represents the inner side of a bootleg with the counter-lining sewed to it; Fig. 2, a view of part of the boot applied to theinner sole, with the lips of the counter-lining turned over upon and secured to the inner sole; Fig. 3, a similar view, with one-half of a stiffener inserted between the countenlining and back or counter of the boot; and Fig. 4: shows one-half of aflanged metal stiffening removed from the boot.

The front of the boot and the back a and in ner sole, 1), are all as usual. ing 0 has its upper edge sewed to the back a, as commonly done, and the ends of the counter are connected in the side seams, orcaught and covered by the saddle or other seam-forming parts. I cut or shape the lower end of the counter-lining, as shown in Fig. 1, to form a series of lips, d, which, after the boot is placed upon the last, in connectionwith the inner sole, b, as usual, are bent over upon and secured separately to the inner sole by nails or pegs or fastenings 2. Fastening the lips d to the inner sole in this way enables the boot-maker to insure the correct relative positions of the boot-back and inner sole to produce a uniform lieel, and leaves the counter-lining turned in and the lower end of the counter standing or separated from the lining, so that the stiffener e (flanged or otherwise) maybe readily inserted and pushed or driven down in position between the counter and lining without liability of disturbin g the correct relative position of the said parts with relation to the inner sole. The stiff- The. counter-linening, whether of two short pieces or of one long piece, having been inserted between the counter and lining, the lower end of the back is then turned overupon the flanged part of 10 inner sole and stiffening, preparatory to applying the outer sole, all substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD W. CONE.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, ARTHUR REYNOLDS. 

